IDVD 4.0.1 audio problems

I've been working through a problematic project (corrupted iMovie 4.0.1 project file; restored from backup and re-did lost work) that's around 52 minutes long. I'm now having problems in iDVD 4.0.1 with the audio (which, from reading other questions, seems to be a common problem). Let me preface this by saying that I've burned a number of prior DVDs without incident. On the current try, I have built the project both by clicking the button within iMovie and by importing the project .mov file into a new iDVD project and gotten the same results. I've used MacSweeper 3.0 and DiskWarrior. I've made sure that no extraneous other programs are running. I've tried burning to both disk image and direct to disk.
What happens is that, for all video past around the halfway mark on the disk, there is only audio during the titles. The project plays fine in iMovie. The whole-project .mov file plays fine in Quicktime Player (there's audio everywhere). So, what could cause iDVD to drop audio that Quicktime doesn't? How can I rescue this project? Does the problem lie in iMovie or iDVD?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 80GB HD, 768MB RAM

hi Michael:
Which version of quicktime are you using?
Did you use an Easter Egg to burn a disk image?
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